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Wildfire Sunset and Blue Curtain (1), 2025 by Shawn Huckins is now on view at the Santa Fe Airport as part of Surrealism and Abstraction: The Life Of A Cloud, presented by the Santa Fe Gallery Association.

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Blurring the line between beauty and catastrophe, Huckins transforms the visual language of the American landscape into something both seductive and unsettling. Framed by theatrical blue curtains, the wildfire becomes a stage set, inviting viewers to question how imagery, media, and distance shape our relationship to climate events unfolding in real time.
On view through August 21, 2026.

Shawn Huckins
Wildfire Sunset and Blue Curtain (1), 2025
Oil and acrylic on canvas
84 x 68 in

K Contemporary is pleased to present Jason Craighead: Stories from the River, opening Saturday, May 16, from 3–6 PM at K Contemporary Santa Fe.

This exhibition marks an important milestone: our inaugural solo exhibition at our new Santa Fe location on Canyon Road. We are honored to begin this chapter with Jason Craighead, whose work brings together gestural abstraction, landscape, memory, and lived experience with remarkable emotional force.

Rooted in recent travels to Morocco and Newfoundland, Craighead’s new paintings evoke cliffs, rivers, distant horizons, and shifting terrains. Yet beyond landscape, these works speak to something deeper: the experience of moving through the world as both an individual and part of a shared human condition.

We are especially excited to welcome Jason Craighead in person for the opening reception.

Please join us for this special evening in Santa Fe.

Jason Craighead: Stories from the River
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 16, 3–6 PM
May 16 – June 20, 2026
K Contemporary Santa Fe
203 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM

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Angel Ricardo Ricardo Rios | I Wasn’t Born in Havana

✨ Opening Saturday, May 9 ✨

Join us at K Contemporary for the opening of Angel Ricardo Ricardo Rios: I Wasn’t Born in Havana, a powerful new exhibition rooted in displacement, intuition, memory, and the unstable terrain of identity.

Born in Cuba and shaped by time spent between Cuba and Mexico, Rios approaches painting not as representation, but as necessity. His works erupt from the unconscious through brushwork, fingers, drips, and gesture, creating compositions that feel alive, sensual, unruly, and deeply human.

I Wasn’t Born in Havana becomes less about geography and more about perception, belonging, detachment, and the way identity is continuously constructed through experience.

Opening Reception
Saturday, May 9, 2026
3–6 PM
K Contemporary
1412 Wazee Street, Denver, CO

✨ Come celebrate with us.

Kristopher Wright at NXTHVN ✨ ✨✨✨✨

We’re proud to share that Kristopher Wright has been awarded a prestigious residency at NXTHVN in New Haven, co-founded by Titus Kaphar.

NXTHVN is one of the most forward-thinking arts incubators in the country. A year-long, fully supported program offering studio space, housing, mentorship, and career development.

Now halfway through the residency, Kristopher is deep in the work. This moment already marks a meaningful point in his trajectory, and we’re excited to see what continues to develop during his time in New Haven.

Kristopher’s practice brings together painting, screen printing, and collage to build layered narratives around memory, family, and the emotional texture of American life. Moments of joy, loss, and connection unfold in ways that feel both personal and collective.

Onward 🚀